(Bloomberg) — The nor'easter that soaked New York battered New England with hurricane-force gusts Wednesday, upending trees and leaving more than half a million homes and businesses without power.
Wind gusts of 87 mph ripped through Scituate, Massachusetts, near Boston. They reached 94 mph on Martha's Vineyard, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm flooded roads, closed schools on Cape Cod and mangled the wings of several private airplanes at airports around the region. Roughly 590,000 homes and businesses were without electricity, primarily in Massachusetts, according to PowerOutage.us. The storm's central pressure, a measure of its strength, dropped so quickly that the National Weather Service designated it a "bomb cyclone."
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